What is philosophy but a continual battle against custom?

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

The beauty of a fragment is that it still supports the hope of brilliant completeness.

Insecurity is just something that's there all the time. I've never been crippled by it.

With Alexander's cancer, I was definitely brought to my knees for the first time because of the fear factor.

No wonder of it: sheer plod makes plough down sillion Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear, Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion.

If you do something often enough, a ratio will appear

Red Bull doesn't give you wings, it just makes ya sick.

Obviously, the faster we process information, the more rich and complex our models or glosses - our reality-tunnels - will become.

The things we do at Christmas are touched with a certain extravagance, as beautiful, in some of its aspects, as the extravagance of nature in June.

We had something to say. Whenever we played, people didn't dance, they listened.

When people are happy they have a reserve upon which to draw, whereas she was like a wheel without a tyre